3C Community Profile: Humboldt Park
Take a stroll down the Paseo Boricua corridor on Division Street and it’s easy to see why Humboldt Park is one of Chicago’s most vibrant…
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Association of Latino Men for Action
ALMA Chicago has been a vital advocate and supporter of the Latinx LGBTQ+ community for over 35 years. Since its founding in 1989, ALMA has played a pioneering role in promoting the visibility, rights, and well-being of this often overlooked and marginalized population. Historically, ALMA made significant strides by being the first Latinx LGBTQ+ organization to march in both the Chicago Mexican and Puerto Rican parades, marking a pivotal moment for LGBTQ+ visibility in public Latinx events. Additionally, ALMA was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 2000, recognizing its longstanding contributions to the LGBTQ+ community. Also, as a leading organization in the fight for marriage equality in Illinois, ALMA ensured that the Illinois Latino Caucus voted unanimously in support of the law. Making marriage equality in Illinois a reality. Securing LGBTQ Fund funding is crucial for ALMA to continue its mission of building power, advocating for justice, and supporting the well-being of all Latinx LGBTQ+ communities. This funding will allow ALMA to expand its reach, enhance its programs, and address the growing needs of the community, ensuring that ALMA remains a vital resource for the Latinx LGBTQ+ community in Chicago and beyond.
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Links Hall Incorporated
Links Hall has a long-standing practice of supporting and showcasing LGBTQ artists, reflecting its alignment with the LGBTQ Fund’s 2024 focus on arts investment. For nearly fifty years, it has served as a crucial incubator for dance and performance, offering a nurturing, queer and trans-affirming space where artists can develop and present their work. The organization’s subsidized rentals program provides affordable rehearsal and production space while its Co-MISSION residencies offer financial support, studio space, mentorship, and full production assistance. Additionally, Links Hall collaborates with queer and trans artists to co-present productions each season, making it a vital part of Chicago’s performance ecosystem and a launchpad for both emerging and established LGBTQ artists. As a cultural cornerstone in Chicago, Links Hall is committed to inclusivity and intersectionality, evidenced by its support for BIPOC queer and trans artists and commitment to DEI. The organization’s majority queer staff and trans Executive Director foster a supportive and celebratory environment essential for artistic vulnerability and risk-taking. By addressing the financial and accessibility challenges faced by LGBTQ artists and prioritizing racial justice and accessibility, Links Hall enriches Chicago’s cultural landscape and supports the vitality of its diverse artistic community.
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VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS
VAI's Youth Program is entering an exciting phase, as our team has expanded over the last year, to include a full-time program manager and two program coordinators. The additional staffing of two more program coordinators will position Youth Program to meet the growing needs of the community even more effectively, allowing us to shrink what is usually a long class waitlist, and admit more students into our year-round, out-of-school-time program. We also recognize that our Youth Program fills a much needed gap in culturally relevant, social-behaviorial skill-building resources available within the Uptown neighborhood, and want to equip our team with the training and professional support needed to develop successful curriculum. While VAI’s extra-curricular programming has historically focused on encouraging a sense of belonging among participants, mostly from Vietnamese-immigrant background, what we’ve seen over the years is growing diversity in the Uptown community of Black, Brown, immigrant, and native-born youth. We recognize the importance of creating transformative relationships among the group of students and the families we work with. Given the pace at which young people are connecting to social justice issues, their relationships to each other and their community have never been more important. A $25,000 grant from Asian Giving Circle would bolster our efforts to reach even more young people in the Uptown neighborhood.
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KAN-WIN
KAN-WIN’s mission is to eliminate gender-based violence by providing comprehensive, survivor-centered services, education, and outreach to Asian American communities and beyond. Following the success of the AGC’s first FY24 grant, we are respectfully requesting support from the Asian Giving Circle (AGC) to further strengthen our Economic Empowerment Program (EEP) for survivors of gender-based violence. This program is designed to and will continue to empower survivors by promoting financial literacy, removing barriers to stability, and building a foundation for sustainable career growth and economic independence. Through the EEP, survivors are guided in making informed financial decisions and receive support in their native languages. As a result, many have opened their first U.S. bank accounts and started building credit through microloans. With AGC’s FY24 grant, several survivors completed the financial literacy program and savings match program (emergency fund building). Furthermore, KAN-WIN's EEP has launched a Career Foundation Program with AGC’s FY24 funding which was a new development for EEP. This program was intentionally developed to reinforce survivors' core strengths and create a direct pipeline to workforce resources. In this way, the EEP helps survivors build a strong foundation for achieving long-term financial stability and safety. With the FY25 AGC grant, EEP will continue to incorporate culturally sensitive components into each financial literacy and career foundation program for the Korean, Mongolian, and Chinese communities of survivors.
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Heart Women & Girls Project
The nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC) is rooted in white supremacy and capitalism. In order to successfully advance one’s mission, often nonprofits participate in the NPIC, resulting in competition, a scarcity mindset, the tokenization of Black and brown staff, and toxic workplaces that replicate the same harm internally as they are trying to disrupt in the communities they serve. These challenges are further compounded by anti-blackness and white supremacy that is pervasive in AAPI communities and AAPI led organizations, often resulting in pitting Black and AAPI folks against each other and leveraging the model minority mindset to align with law enforcement to cultivate a false sense of security. Finally, the anti-blackness and internalized white supremacy within AAPI led organizations creates a toxic workplace and harmful practices, resulting in overworked, underpaid staff and frequent turnover. HEART is a national nonprofit headquartered in Chicago led by AAPI Muslim women that has been working to incorporate a racial justice lens to their internal work culture as well as its external programming for the last few years. The purpose of this request is to request $15,000 to document the ways in which the organization has to disrupted anti-blackness and white supremacy within its organization. The funding will support the development of a toolkit and training for AAPI-led organizations that are interested in strengthening their commitment to disrupting anti-blackness and white supremacy in their internal and external programming.
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SpaceShift Collective
Devon Night Market is the next phase of SpaceShift Collective’s five-year-long immersive creative placemaking project in Chicago’s South Asian neighborhood on Devon Avenue. Conceived and produced by SpaceShift Collective, Devon Night Market will bring together community members, artists, creatives, and local businesses in a public celebration of the neighborhood and as a way to connect and share resources. Devon Night Market will take place monthly between May 2025 - October 2025.
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CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC
The Chinese American Service League (CASL) and South Asian American Policy & Research Institute (SAAPRI) will continue to build and lead a coalition of partner organizations focused on assisting hate crime survivors and educating and empowering our Chicagoland AANHPI community on how to report hate crimes and hate incidents. The goal is to strengthen a network of trusted allies that the AANHPI community can rely on. CASL’s Anti-Hate Action Center and SAAPRI have been working to fight and prevent hate in different ways. With a renewed grant we will continue to expand the foundation and infrastructure we have built around rapid response and data gathering with a coalition to reach more members of the AANHPI community. We will plan on reaching out to organizations serving different members of the AANHPI community to invite them to join the coalition; CASL and SAAPRI will convene the group every other month to educate and empower the AANHPI community to prevent and respond to hate incidents.
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Chinese Mutual Aid Association Inc
Chinese Mutual Aid Association, along with partners Indo-American Center and Apna Ghar, seek $25,000 to continue development of a Pan Asian American Center (PAAC) and refine its architectural design plans. The PAAC will be a space for transformative collaboration where members of the AAPI community can access social, educational, and wellness services, engage in cultural exchange, and develop entrepreneurial skills. Through a series of cross-organization conversations, we collectively recognize the significance of our proposed project and believe a PAAC would be a unique asset to the Midwest and beyond. Our coalition, with a rich history of aiding immigrants and refugees, envisions the PAAC as a broader community resource, with verbal commitments from 15 diverse AAPI organizations. Our Year 1 funding support from the Asian Giving Circle’s AACDF grant facilitated a community engagement process that gleaned important insights. This Year 2 grant will propel our early core development and incorporate the community engagement findings into the foundation of our building’s design to ensure that accessibility, inclusivity, and cultural relevance are integrated at the core of the PAAC. The PAAC will be a community-driven project whose architecture, services, and programming work in harmony to build a truly unique resource for AAPI and community members.